Mutant Stocks
Coat Colors and Variants
| Coat Colors | origin Source |
|---|---|
| Albino c/c | Sumner's albino deer mice (Sumner, 1922) |
| Ashy ahy/ahy | Wild-caught in Oregon ~ 1960 (Teed et al., 1990) |
| Blonde bln/bln | Mich. State U. colony (Pratt and Robbins, 1982) |
| 2Brown b/b | Huestis stocks (Huestis and Barto, 1934) |
| California blonde cfb/cfb | Santa Cruz I., Calif., stock (Roth and Dawson, 1996) |
| Dominant spotting S/+ | Wild caught in Illinois (Feldman, 1936) |
| Ivory i/i | Wild caught in Illinois (Feldman, 1936) |
| Platinum plt/plt | Barto stock at U. Mich. (Dodson et al., 1987) |
| 2Silver sil/sil | Huestis stock (Huestis and Barto, 1934) |
| Tan streak tns/tns | Clemson U. stock from N.C. (Wang et al., 1993) |
| Wide-band agouti ANb/+ | Natural polymorphism. U. Mich. (McIntosh, 1954) |
| Other Mutations and Variants | ORIGINS |
| Alcohol dehydrogenase negative Adho/Adho | South Carolina BW stock (Felder, 1975) |
| Alcohol dehydrogenase positive Adhf/Adhf | South Carolina BW stock (Felder, 1975) |
| Boggler bgl/bgl | Blair's P. m. blandus stock (Barto, 1955) |
| Cataract-webbed cwb/cwb | From Huestis stocks (Anderson and Burns, 1979) |
| Epilepsy epl/epl | U. Michigan artemisiae stock (Dice, 1935) |
| Hairless-1 hr-1/hr-1 | Sumner's hairless mutant (Sumner, 1924) |
| Hairless-2 hr-2/hr-2 | Egoscue's hairless mutant (Egoscue, 1962) |
| Juvenile ataxia jtx/jtx | U. Michigan stock (Van Ooteghem, 1983) |
| Enzyme variants | Wild type stocks given above provide a reservoir for several enzyme and other protein variants. (Dawson et al., 1983) |
2Available only as silver/brown double recessive.
Other Resources of the Peromyscus Genetic Stock Center
Limited numbers of other stocks, species, mutants and variants are on hand, or under development, but are not currently available for distribution. For additional information or details about any of these mutants and stocks, contact: Janet Crossland, colony Manager, 803-777-3107 or 777-1212.
Preserved or frozen specimens of types listed.
Tissues, whole blood or serum of typed listed.
Flat skins or mutant coat colors or wild-type any of the species listed.
Reference library of more than 2400 reprints of research articles and reports on Peromyscus. Articles can be photocopied and mailed.